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First visit by Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to the German Navy

First visit by Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to the German Navy

Gepostet von | 18 Feb 2023 | , , , | 0

From a press release by Rostock Naval Command: On Tuesday, 21 February 2023, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius will visit the German Navy in Eckernförde for the first time. He will take the opportunity to familiarise himself with part of the Navy's range of capabilities, both at sea and on land. After an exchange with the Inspector of the Navy, Vice Admiral Jan Christian Kaack, Minister Pistorius will visit the submarine training centre. This will be followed by a demonstration of the naval battalion's capabilities before sea voyages on the minehunter "Bad Bevensen" and the frigate "Hessen" are on the agenda. There he will gain an insight into working and living on board a warship....

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Argentina: Football greetings from the ice

Argentina: Football greetings from the ice

Gepostet von | 17 Feb 2023 | , , | 0

During our winter in the northern hemisphere, the world looks very different in the southern hemisphere: All available ice-capable naval vessels visit and supply the many national and international research stations in the distant Antarctic. Personnel and equipment are exchanged, or food is stored for the coming winter months. Major repairs or construction work can also only be carried out during this time, after which it will once again be an icy night south of the Arctic Circle. Antarctic supplies The "Almirante Irízar", the 15,000-tonne and now 45-year-old ice supply ship of the Argentine navy, is now at the southern tip of the Weddell Sea, its southernmost point of this year's Antarctic campaign....

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Godmother of the Gorch Fock deceased

Godmother of the Gorch Fock deceased

Gepostet von | 16 Feb 2023 | , , | 0

Ulli Kinau, born in 1944, was the niece of the seafaring poet Johann Wilhelm Kinau, whose pen name Gorch Fock became the namesake of the famous sailing ship class of Blohm & Voss Hamburg twice. As the 14-year-old daughter of brother and journalist Rudolf Kinau, who became famous through the radio series "Hör mal'n beten to", Ulli Kinau was allowed to christen the ship of the young German Navy. More than ten thousand people gathered for the occasion on 23 August 1958. She lived in Finkenwerder and was involved in seafaring all her life.

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Philippines: China dazzles Manila's Coast Guard with lasers

Philippines: China dazzles Manila's Coast Guard with lasers

Gepostet von | 16 Feb 2023 | , , | 0

On Monday, 6 February 2023, the Chinese Coast Guard vessel 5205 not only obstructed the Philippine coast guard boat "Malapascua" by manoeuvring dangerously, but also illuminated it with powerful laser beams. Some of the bridge crew were severely blinded in the process, requiring medical treatment. This was the first time that laser illumination had been used and is a first in the repertoire of Chinese units in the South China Sea. The "Malapascua" was on a voyage to Second Thomas Shoal, an underwater reef occupied by Philippine forces in the sector of the sea area illegally claimed by China. In 2022 alone, the Philippines had...

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Jet Shark - Fast Fun! Or even more?

Jet Shark - Fast Fun! Or even more?

Gepostet von | 16 Feb 2023 | , , , | 0

The two New Zealanders Rob Innes and Dan Piazza started out 25 years ago as Innespace, later Innespace Productions in Northern California, with small, fast and also limited submersible watercraft of various propulsion types. For almost 15 years, they have been building fish-shaped high-performance fun boats by hand - expensive, but unique and spectacular. Their latest coup is the "Jet Shark", a further development of the "Seabreacher", which is delivered to solvent customers in exclusive small series as a 5 metre long shark, dolphin or orca, individually airspray-painted with a 1.5 litre supercharged four-stroke engine (230 hp) and water jet propulsion. Video of the "Seabreacher" "Jet Shark" is larger, has a navalised 500 hp...

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